Productivity and Procrastination
February 21, 2009 by
Filed under Procrastination, Productivity
What is productivity?
The dictionary definition of productivity is; “The ratio of the quantity and quality of units produced to the labor per unit of time”, but the bottom line for any business is profit.
A lot of people suffer from procrastination, and it can be very frustrating. They want to produce. Consciously they want to produce something but for some reason they find themselves doing other things that aren’t as important or are just time wasting. There’s always an excuse and things end up not getting done anywhere near as quickly as they could be, if at all.
Now, the simple fact is that there is plenty of information around on how to improve productivity, lots of tools & tricks, all you need to do is go down the bookstore or go onto the Internet, look it up and you’ll find all sorts of books and products to help you. Time management, prioritizing, delegation and so forth, but that’s not what I’m talking about today.
The Reality
If it was that simple that’s what you would do, you would go off buy a book, read it, put it into practice and all would be done. Procrastination happens when there’s incongruence or an incompatibility between what you consciously think you want to do and what you subconsciously want to do.
Guess what? Unless you are aware, your subconscious will win every time.
But you know that already don’t you?
Your actions betray your real intentions and getting to the bottom of what your real intentions are is something that most people need help with.
Set Goals
It maybe as simple as: Find out what you really want, set some tangible goals and actions around those and then use an effective coaching methodology to make them happen.
To produce effectively, you need to be internally and externally congruent and be really, really clear on what it is that you want and go for it. Having a coach helps you clear up the inevitable roadblocks that will arise along the way.
So there you have it. Simple, but perhaps not very easy without help.
How much is trying to tough it out on your own costing you?
